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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240
The attached property, the Lewes Historic District, reference number 77000393 was listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the Keeper of the National Register on 9/19/1977, as evidenced by the FEDERAL REGISTER/WEEKLY LIST notice of Tuesday, February 7,1978, Part II, Vol.43, No. 26, page 5185. The attached nomination form is a copy of the original documentation provided to the Keeper at the time of listing.
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The hiitoric dlttrict contain* »o«t o'f. the seventeenth-century town of Lewes, together with part of Pilot Town, * contiguous ae ttl«n«nt to the north, ^-';;"--^^^^^^^^^>^:^^ -;•*•>• ^'-v.,;..-^ ".:^-/. , .-.. • . , .. ; '. x, .. ;-..••$ ;^' ' As laid 'out about 200 .years ago, the town extended from.Leweo Creak to Pagan Creek, betw««n th«pr«H«ntS«vann»h Road and Shipcajrpenter Strcot. Lewes Creek; has been dredgod to w)te' the Lcwas and nehobbth Canal and parts of the waterfront have been cov«ted by parking lota|tenni» courts, and other modern intrusions. Quite early in Lewes' history, a village of seafarer* known as Pilot Twm developed to the north of town along the creek. " ' . t ' B«fe>rV^1723^the;-»«t:tl«eht extended west-ward bnly: lto' Second open«4 ; arbuind^r,hmt^tiw^Later in , the eighteenth century/ thi^savanhah^behind Third Street was drained and' opened for development. Fourth Street was laid out) in^the 1819 town plan r > but-: it was not yet opened. 'By 1868, when Beers' Atlas was published, ^ the present street plan had' been developed. For another fifty years the vacant lots filled and new buildings replaced older ones. Lots were subdivided and new structures were built where none had. been, House-moving is^:'iorig-s~tan^^ The large, two-story Governor Burton House (145) y^now (the visual terminus of second Street; was moved from Angola Neck"' in'-. 1825. s\X later generation moved a\ wing to another lot/ and a still later genera tion/moved the wing to Georgetown* the old doctor's office (21) has been moved twice. The process -continues at the Historical Society enclave and elsewhere in town. The result of all this house-moving has been retention of an architectural heritage that would otherwise have been lost. Rather than raze an existing structure, to make way for a new one, a Lewes builder typically moves it to a vacant lot on the back side of town. Thus, some of the older houses now stand in newer neighborhoods. The nineteenth century was Lewes' most vigorous period of expansion, which created iihe towns cape that exists today. Except for the south end of Front and Second streets, excluded from the nomination, Victorian Lewes has survived intact with few intrusions.
In the inventory that ..follows, keyed to the sketch map, each structure, site, or group of structures is briefly described.
THE The district: contains two blocks of Pilot Town, a linear settlement north of the original town limits at Shipcarpenter Street, The pilots' houses were built on the high ground above the street. Each lot originally included a tract of the creek bank, where the pilot boats were docked. In town, the north end of Front Street is occupied largely by the backs of the Second Street properties and by modern tennis courts and parking lota on the creek side. On the south end, below Market, the creek side of Front Street retains one row of the old creek-bank maritime structures. Below the 1812 Park, modern parking lots and a filling station have destroyed the original character of the street.
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CONTINUATIONSHtir ITEMPUMKPl PAOi ,u secondStreet visually terminates in a two-story fr«»e house with shingle sidingfU45, 84). The north end of,the street, above Mulberry, remains a well-kept residential; district. From St. Peter's Qtutch southward, the street contains a cignifi- cant collection of Victorian and earlier commercial building*. Significant intrusions of modern storen caused th« southeast portion of th* street to be excluded from the district. In general, the surviving Victorian commercial structures on Second street are well kept and have a high preservation potential. Like Front Street, the east aide of Third Street is largely occupied by the rears of lots on Second Street. The west side of Third Street contains well-kept houses, several of which have been recently rehabilitated. shipcarpenter.'•'•''"..• Stre«t,<' east' of-Third,' !'is a prosperous' '' . residential- ' district in a good state of repair. The Lewes Historical Society enclave is here, West of Third, Shipcarpenter Street is built up only on the south side* The houses here aru small, typical of the working-class houses found throughout Sussex. Mulberry Street; which extends from second Street to Fourth Street, is a late-Victorian residential neighborhood in which some rehabilitation has been undertaken. The houses are mostly small, on narrow lotaj toward the west end, some larger houses are found. Market street, formerly the main businessstreet,begins at the former bridge site on the creek and extends west to Frog Hill, a high point near Fourth street. Along Market Street may be ceen most of the architectural styles and types in the city. AS SUIMmifc TO FixmN* 10300* tii*» 10-741 r-\ UNITED STATES DEPART^ JNT OF THE INTERIOR F0*i\ J NATIONAL PARK MIIVICC NCCEtVfO NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY « NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION *NCft ITEM NUMflCn PAGE are aaong the best rwmanti of Victorian Lewes. Also on Savannah Road ii th« Governor Burton Birthplace, an eighteenth-century building that is the aesthetic focus of Second strMt. ' INVENTORY - LEWES HISTORIC DtsTRlCT; (Properties lilted in the Survey of Delaware Historic Sites and Buildings are identified by inventory numbers after the remarks). Front street {Pilot Town Road) S-2S1 street No. Kap Key No. Remarks 354 1 Frame, 2-story, 5-bay, Victorian house with full-width porch* 352 2 Frame, 2-atory, Victorian house with a cross gable, repeated)in the ornate porch below, 346 3 INTRUSION] 2-story, frame house, modern in style, but featuring such local details as shingle siding. 344 4 Frame, 3-bay, 2-story house, with gable toward street, featuring fish-scale shingle siding, popular in late- Victorian Lewes. 342 5 Frame, 2-story house with gable toward street, featuring stained-glass lights surrounding windowpanes, a rare feature in Lewes, No number 6 INTRUSION] Modern bungalow. ANNE AVENUE INTERSECTS 7 INTRUSION Modern bungalow. ..-' . " !'"_<' 334 a Frame, 2-story, Victorian" house with cross-gable and a well-preserved ornate porch. Ho number Frame, 2-story, 5-bay house with a low roof, featuring the rudimentary pedimented lintels found on early Victorian houses. 10 Frame, 2-story house with old shingle siding intact, featvring the same pedimented lintels, built in 1873. FwmNe (0 WO* J") IR«v 10-74) UNlTfcDSTATESDKPAVrMBNTl)KTHKJ-SDKPAVIMBI INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECCIVED INVENTORY « NOMINATION FORM DATE CONTIHUATION SHiET .ITEM NUMBER PAGE Street Wo. May Key No. Remarks 326 11 house with gable fronting the street, well-preserved 'iron fence and lacy wed verandah in a good state of preservation.; 324 12 Modern bungalow - a>emod«lied old house. 322 13 Frame, 5-b*y, 2-story 1 Victorian house, heavily modernized. 320 14 2-story; Victorian house on rusticated cement-block foundation. •. •.'^^•.•'.^^^•••;;;V^ • .\^LM-;- •, ^'' .tW-^&^v^frfr.-;-*-; . . . 314 15 Th« ; Orhon ; Hou8e, S-229, a surviving section that originally v»as ; a wing of;a much oldar house.'. The plank house that once-stood in th« yard ia now in the historic enclave behind. 'The house has aluminum siding. S-229 312 FraineVv2-story, mansard-roofed house; superficially modernised with porch enclosures and siding, No number 17 Pranie/^S-bay, -2-story house with deep eaves returning strongly at the gables in typical mid-nineteenth-century Sussex County style. X columned porch crosses the facade. One of the few surviving Lewes carriage houses stands on this property. • f M ...-, ..... ^ ^ ' 304 1.8 Large, frame, 2-ex.bry house with L-pl an, featuring fiah- scale shingle siding on the gable above the clapboard siding. SHIP CARPENTER STREET INTERSECTS 242 19 II(TWSIONl;:?'cinder:block bungalow attached to 103 Shipcarpehter Street. -.-,. ! '- AS SUBMITTED To OAHj>. oimHo 10MO* H«v 10-741 UNITED STATES DEPARt £NTOF THE INTERIOR FOR . ,t UK ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE fteCCIVEO NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATEEHTtREO CONTINUATION SHEET MEM NUMBER PAGE MARKET STREET INTERSECTS .,.•.>. j'"' T '•''•- . "/-?.. ; jf. ' i;- •''•'..'•,:.'•. ' • • ——— 22 For ' ^socne historians*,' an' early , fort wa8>bullt the eighteenth; century, la 'supposed to hav« b^en^ built across the fort site. S-233 -A.-, -.'..' •^•1^^.-L i^•;^;i^^/^^'•;^/»•.,v v ^.^^;:'•/^•!.•^.^,. . No number 23 ElUi Marina 'Complex r ; Six coraiectea^buildihgiir; one' of which is a modern block structure / 'make''; up,*, the conmercial row. Although heavily remodalled/ ; they \ftre^ the. last sur- vivors of; a row of storehouses ; that! bnca.L clustered around the bank of Lewes Creek near-Market Street bridge,, S-246 2*1 1812 Parkt This park on'the site'of -a ^Lewes battery during the War of 1812 contains cannon of the period and of later eras. No trace of the military site survives above ground, S-245. -'•. ,: . ' ; ',:.-;' No-number 25 CahrionbalJ House; 3-bay, 2-story, frame house /now a museurri. The caiumnball' imbedded 1 in the foundation is said to have hefin fired during the British bombardment in 1813 1 S-141. ; ;| .. , ( . No number 26 INTH.1SIOH: Lewes Qnporium, a modern commercial building. Second.'Street (easjb'aide) ; • ' ;. | < , ;• No number 27 Frame, 2-story^Inineteehthj-centuryl hou^e said to stand on/the site ofajWar of 1812 arsenalt S-223. No number 20 The : town ditchr now A storm' drain, originally helped drain .th«\.^savu)fiah f "'between Third and Fourth streets, when it was(dug during the eighteenth century. 231 29 Daniel!Rodney House, large,- 2-story frame house with shingle siding, set on a large lot that includes the town ditch) S-241. c 229 30 Frame, 2-atory house with shingle siding, built in two sections, nineteenth century. 227 31 Primrose house, frame, 2-atory, 2-bay, small house, typical of the smaller town houses of lower Delaware. 225 32 HocXer residence, on the property with the brush factory (20)} a from*, 2-story, nineteenth century house. 223 33 Frame, 2-story, mansard-roofed house. AS swMinro TO t FoimNo 103001 ; (Tit. 10-7*1 •• -' ,~\ ,'\. ! UNlTtDSTAlES DEPAR'^ /.HNTOFTHEINTEHIOR rOK JSUiCONLY NATIONAL PARK WRVICf MECCIV£0 \ I NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES .1. . J j INVENTORY -NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED i i • \ CONTINUATION IHtfT , ITCM NUM«it 1 PAGE 6 i :| :•• -.-. ( 1 Stree,: *e. Hap Key Mo. Remarks t i 221 34 Atypical extunple . of fche larger, late-nineteenth-century frame houses; with gable fronting the street, and a wide i verandah, ; i • j i 217 35 Frame, 2-story, manuard-rcofed house with shingle siding, distinguished by large brackets. 1 I 215-213 36 Frame; 2-ntcry duplex with a cross gable and intact, late-Victorian porch. ', \ [ No number 3? INTRUSION: Liquor store and parking lot. i : No number 3B Brick' store building with date stona inscribed "Robert Scott's Block 1885." i ' PART OF MARKET ST. INTERSECTS t .' • j No number 39 Market House and jail site in the middle of Hark at Street; S-240. i : •*.:'., j PART OP MARKET, ST. INTERSECTS ' No number 40 Two-story, frame building, erected in several parts, t* • • t •• '» with two store fronts. 1 No number , : :41 INTRUSION: Neo-Colonial branch bank. f BANK STREET INTERSECTS ' , No number '42 Pair/of 2-atory frame houses and a vacant lot between Neill's 1 Alley and Bank Street, on part of Major Henry Neill's lot. Second Street (west sida) 242-240 43 Two frame, 2-story, modern houses in the traditional local style. 44 Governor £be*w. Tunnell House, a large, 2S-story, frame building with a cross gable elaborately decorated with carpenter trimi s-227. 232 45 Mansard-roofed, 2-story frame house in a good state of preservation. FORM AS SOIMITTH) TO OAW, 10»0« /-\ • fl»< 10-74) ( ) UNITtDSTATtSDHPAKTMHNT OH THK INTERIOR f 0* NPS USC ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY » NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHilT ITEM NUMBER PAGE Street No. Mm Key Mo, Remark* 226 46 Moderniced franc, 2-story house with a pent eave and aluminum aiding. 226 Frame, 2-story house, nineteenth century. No nuaber •ill Vacant lot, site of one of the first houses, owned during the eighteenth century by Elioha Burton, Rhoades Shankland, and other well-Known citizens. 49 Ryves Halt KouaV, a 2-story frame structure, probably seventeenth century; S-158. 50 Site of Rev. William Becket housai now part of St. Peter's Church cemetery. 51 St, Peter's Church and site of Sussex County Court Mouse; S-16B. MARKET STREES^JHTERSECTS. No number 52 INTRUSION: Valley of the Swans Hotel - site of Caleb Rodnay Store; S-242, NO number 53 Sussex Trust Company, a stone-faced bank building with ornate detail. 123 INTRUSION: Bill's TV, a modernised building. 124-120 55 INTRUSION; Double store building. No number 56 Masonic Temple, a large early-twantieth-century, 2-storycommercial and fraternal building. 114 57 Nondescript 'commercial building. No number 56 Walsh Building, an ornate Victorian, 2-story, brick commerical building, containing a supermarket on the first floor.. 104 59 INTRUSION; Brick, two-story, modern residence. No number 60 Large, 2-story frame dwelling, with well-preserved Victorian trim. SAVANNAH ROAD INTERSECTS Third Street (east aide) The east side of Third Street is occupied by outbuilding behind properties on second street and the sides of properties on the cross streets. '^>: '. '•:'•.. v'-.v.1' IM* HJ-741 ( ) ( . UNlTbDSTATESDliPAR'tMKNTOKTimiNThklOR FOR NfS USf ONLY , ' \ NATIONAL PARK SERVICE V i t I . RCUIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLAGES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATEENHMO CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE Street Ho. Map Key Mo. Remark• , Third Street (west side) '• ;''.:;M,''••• :: :•-...' •.',.'•/'•,••.,' '•' ••/ • > "'•• ' • •' • 301 61 Frame/ 2-atbry house/ formerly, a store, *t the corner of Third and Shipcarpenter, heavily remodelled. 326 62 FraMo, 2-story house, with mansard roof and A well- executed carpenter-gothic porch. ; , No number 63 Small1, frame medical office, said to have bev. moved from the bank of Lewes Creek. The- wing is modernF 5-159. 316-320 64 INTRUSION: Two modern bungalows. No number 65 Frame, 2-story house with well-preserved Victorian porch. MULBERRY STREET INTERSECTS 216 66 Ashlar stuccoed, 2-story, early twentieth-century house, with delicate detail on the downspout leader boxes. Ho number 67 Frame, 2-story, 3-bay Victorian house - recently remodelled and covered with handsplit shingle siding. 20B 68 Frame, 5-bay, 2-story Victorian house with a cross gable and a well-preserved porch. MARKET STREET INTERSECTS Ho number 69 INTRUSION: Modern beauty parlor, No number 70 Old firehouse. CHESTNUT STREET INTERSECTS 10B-114 71 Row of four frame, 2-story, nineteenth-century houses, one of which is * shoe store. SAVANNAH ROAD INTERSECTS AS SUBMITTED TO OAHJ> • • • •. * ,-.•"•'.'.•' -./..I.*!. •',>"-': I-,:. .;*;'•!• v', f.i1 -;•,• 10-74) (1 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTkRTMENTOr OF THE INTERIOR J=OR NFS USE ONLY NATIONALklPARKSEftVlG PARK SEftVlCE RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED COajf INUATIOH SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE Street Ho. Mo juDdb*r : Zwaanendael Museum, built 1932 to ..commemorate the first Dutch colony at Whorekill. The building repeats th* style of th* Town at Hoorn, Holland} S-143. Church street (between Mulberry and Market) The oiO.y properties fronting on this street are two modern bungalows* one on each aide of the street. Fourth Street (east side) tlcv numbers 73 INTRUSION: Three modern bungalows. 311-313 74 Two small, 2-vtory, frame nineteenth-century houses. STREET INTERSECTS - 267-711 75 Two framei, 2-story Victorian houses, retaining original trim. Fourth Street (west side) .; 420-422 76 Two* small, story-anJ-a-half frame houses. NO number 77 Prams, chapel, considerahly modernized with new siding. i! ST. PAUL STREET INTERSECTS 3U2 78 Prune, 2-story house, standing in ft block-wide lot. STREET IMTEHlECgS 214 79 5-bay, 2-story houae. 212 80 Catn«lius ftirton House, a 3-bay, 2-story, frame hcuse with • lower side wing, moved about a century ago from second Street (see ft34); s-248. AS SUBMJTUD TO OAH.P. • • ••j/.'j+f*^t, !0-»0« i v /*\ ' "• H* 10-741 .' : :• •;.. ,v: v {'!•)• ,,':.. '.,•..•.. ;V '• -..'lit: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OK THE INTERIOR FOft NFS US€ ONLY NATIONAL PAKK SERVICE ".-:• ./ \ . ' ' RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY » NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE 10 .-.;•- ::; /->" .,'v. Key Ka. Remarks 81 _ 5rbay^ninete«nth-cBntuty house, In a , ^reservation.':; -vv: ' .: . :. ..:.- .'. .. -'' 202 82 on* bf^tJia first housr.i to be built on Fourth Street when it was opened around 1820-1830. • - '•i .-*>^^^'^V^;>=-;.s^^(-t:;;-:j^-^^^^..:.. . •. Shipcarpehter Street (north aide) 106 83 Large, ^2-story o«iflyTtw«ntieth-century ho\ise, typical of the* better hou»«i -built onv the Delawaze shore during the period. A gable fronts the street. No number 84 Dr. Hiram Burton House; 2-story, frame* sheathed with shingles, said to be eighteenth century) B-232| S-156. No number 85 Lewes Hiotorical Society enclave - including: the Burton-Ingraa House, li-147, formerly on second Street; the Rabbit's Ferry House, S-146; a plan house from the Qrtbn property (See #15), S-157* and a country store from Thompaonville, S-148. 209-234 86 INTRUSION! Two modern bungalows. THi: 305 87 INTRUSIONi Modern bungalow* 307 88 Frame, 2-story, gable-front house. 309 89 Frame, 2-story, 3-bay house. 311 90 INTRUSION* Modern bungalow. 312 91 Gable-front fra»e f 2-story house. Ho number 92 JtHTlUSIONt St. George's AHE Church, an exawple of rusticated cement block used effectively. 321 93 IMTRUSlONi Two •odem bungalow*. MO number 94 ROW of four mall nineteenth-century housesj all frwe, 2-story, typical of low-income housing in the region. FtxmNo 10 3OOt ' • /'v Ifttv 10-7*1 , (,j.J UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THKINTtRIOR HJniNFS USC ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE 11 Mulberry ^Street (norttL side) Mo number 95 Board-and-batten, single-story cotwnercial building; recently moved to the site from across the street. 216-214 96 Frame double house, 2-story, moved from Third and Market streets. Thift is said to be th« Methodist Church of 1790* S-224. THIRD STREET INTERSECTS 306 97 Bailey Art West H&use: a frame, 2-story, 2-bay house on a large lot; S-170. There is a small 2-story house on the roar of the lot. 314 98 Frame, 2-story, heavily modernized, with a pent eave. 316-336 99 A group of seven 2-story frame houses, including examples of carpentdr-gothie porches, & cross-gable, and one modern house (336) with a hip roof and garden at the corner of Fourth Street. FOURTH STREET INTERSECTS Mulberry Street (south side) Ho number 100 Frame parish bouse on * cement block foundation; part of the stt Peter*s Church complex. 213 101 Victorian, 2-story frame house, owned by St. Peter's Church - the "Alfred and Ruley H*rt Memorial." THIRD STREET INTERSECTS He number 102 INTRUSION Modem bungalow. 305 103 Frasw) 2-stary, 5-b*y house with a well-detailed Victorian porch, and a particularly noteworthy front door. 307 104 Frafte, 2-story, 3-bay house with a finely-executed porch 'and one of ths few frosted cut-gla** doors in Lewes. fO*M* 10300* /*v in *v 10-74) • '-' • 0 UNITED STATES DEPART MbN I OMHb INTERIOR FOR NFS USC ONLY NATIONAL fttRK SERVICE , ;•;;. .."-.• ••••' RECEIVED . .. ..'•'•--. .' ; :/-7^ \ NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES v ? ! MITJATtOW VftBM OATEENTEREO. INVENTORY -NO IVlIiNA UUfX FLIKIH CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 12 street No. Map Key No, Remarks 309 105 Frame, gable-front, 2-story house with light, lacy trim. 311 106 Frame, 2-story, 5-bay house with original Victorian porch intact, but partly converted to commercial use. 313 107 Purnell Norman House, a low 1-story house, probably eighteenth century; S-225.- 315 108 Frame, 5-bay, 2-story house, with a new porch. 317 109 Former IOOF Hall, a 2-story frame building, with GreeX- revival detailing, gabla facing Mulberry Street. INTRUSION i There is a modern brick bungalow in the side yard. CHURCH STREET INTERSECTS 325 110 Former Methodist Church, roost recently a paint store, 2-story frame with an upstairs auditorium. 327 111 Frame, 2-story, 3-bay house with shingle siding. 329-331 112 INTRUSION: Pair of modern bungalows. 333 113 Old frame, 2-story house, with brick-like tar paper covering* 337 114 Frame, 3-bay, 2-story house. FOURTH STREET INTERSECTS Market Street (north aide) No number 115 Frame, 2 -story house with a lower side wing, having •hingl* sidingi S-172. No number 116 Frame, small, 1-story house,. 308-310 117 Large, frame, 2-story Victorian duplex with a full- width veranda, originally a farmhouse* 312; 118 Frame, 2-»tory, 3-bay house. 316-318 119 Frame, 2-»tory, Victorian duplex. * Form He 10-HXfc IRtw. 1O-74) o UNITED STATES DEPAirrMl;rtkTf NT CH-THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE " v RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY- NOMINATION CONTINUATIONSHMT ITEM NUMBER PAGE 13 Street No. Map Key No. Remarks ' 320-322-324 120 De Wolf Houses* a group of small, early-nineteenth- century houses standing on the ground that was formerly the public square, which later belonged to St. Peter's Church. The public ground included all the properties on this aid* of Market Street, between second and Fourth streets; S-233. 326 121 Frame, 2-story, narrow nineteenth-century house, with large dentil cornice. 326 122 tehman Grocery: a large, 2-story, frame store building, still used for its original purpose. CHURCH STREET INTERSECTS 330 123 Frame, one-and-a-half-story cottage, with a pair of erooB gables; one of the few cottage-style houses in Leva*. 336 124 Frame, 2-story, 3-bay house. 338 125 Large frame, 2-story Victorian house, with very large j '} porches. 340 126 Hansard-roofed, frame, 1-story house, on a high foundation. 346 127 Frame, 2-story house with a cross-gable and a large veranda, now a restaurant. Next to this house on the west is a vacant lot. FOURTH STREET INTERSECTS 406 146 Frame, 2-Btory;\ Victorian house with a cross-gable and full-length porch. Market Street (south aide) 109 128 Frame, 2-atory ntor* building, with a large awning over the sidewalk. fi THlttE STUEBTt DTTEMBCT No mstber 129 IWTWJSIOWi ROW of three rusticated cement-block houses, with a belt course of delicate cement-block tracery. M ftUlMfTTlD 10 torn No 10 MO* ] /~\ • in«v 10.74) If" UNITtDSTATESDtpXRTMBNTOKTHE INTERIOR FOR NP8 USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED ^ . • •' ' NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY « NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE 14 Market Street (continued) Street Ho. Ma Kay No. Remarks 309-307 130 INTRUSION: Brick, 3-story, twentieth-century duplex 311-327 131 A row of eight, 2- story, Victorian houses; several with well-preserved carpcnter-gothic ttim. 331-329 132 Large,. 2-story frame house, with a mansard roof. ORR STREET INTERSECTS Ho number 133 INTRUSION: Telephone exchange. 339-345 134 A row of four, large, turn-bf-the-century houses, each with a large veranda and distinctive, shaped shingles. Thtt central unit of the group, the double house at 341- 343, wan built in 1901, with several different shingle motif a* FOURTH STREET INTERSECTS 150 405 Story-and-a-haif. frame house, with a large central chimney, one of the West family Itouses, probably eighteenth century; s-247/, 149 411-413 Two frame, 2-story, Victorian houses, surrounded on two sides by Beebe Hospital. parking lots, and on' the other sides by Market Street and Vickers Avenue. Both build- ings are in a good state of preservation. .-....'•"••'. Chestnut Street (north side) " •' '. .: v-^.'-v^-"..-.' •:.'"•'...• --: , . : • This street is largely composed of the rears of properties on Market street. No number 135 I NT WJ SI ON i Cenent contractor's yard. 316 136 Twentieth-century franw, gable-front, 3-story house. 330-332 137 Frane, 2-atory duplex, 4 -bay front. ° ' ' •. . '.' * >r '''.'•".' ":''• '• ''•'"." "".-•' ' • "•* f *- * *.-»t. .-!!'( "I • . . ,--. _ > I,-, | . v., ^j - ? , .^ , , -. .(, . ^. IH*v tO-7*) ' '( ) o UNlTtD STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLAGES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 15 Street No. Map Key No. Remarks QRR STREET INTERSECTS No number 133 INTRUSION i Telephone exchange 246-348 136 Frame, 2-story duplex with a well-preserved carpenter gothic porch. 311 139 small frame, 1-story house, said to "be very old/ but much altered. , 313 140 Small frame, 2-atOry house » with the low second story typical of smaller rental properties in the region* 210 141 Large, 3-story frame house, with exceptionally elaborate trim and a semi-detached gazebo on the porch* 212 141 Frame, 2-story house, with well-preserved Victorian trim. THIRD STREET INTERSECTS No number 143 ZwaanendaelClub, formerly Sussex Trust Companyi < Bniill brick bank building, one story high, with elaborate brick trin. 304-316 144 A group of nix, frain*, 2-story houses - all built around the .turn of the century - retaining moat of their original features. Savannah Roaft (south aide) 113 145 Governor Burton birthplace. A large frane houfte* with shingle siding, built 1789 and moved to Lewes from Angola Neck in 1825; S-226. Rw 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED ' CONTINUATION SHEIT ITEM NUMBER PAGE 16 THIRD STREET INTERSECTS Mo number 72 Zwaanendael Museum; S-143. Ho number 146 Town park. .. i 313-315 147 Pair of small frame, 2-stcary, early-nineteenth-century houses, currently undergoing renovation. AS MMTTTB TO QAHP. i^'C^^u^ .:.i;*'' SIGNIFICANCE o: . u PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE » CHECK AND JUSTIFY B5LOW. —PREHISTORIC iliARCHEULUGY-ME HISTORIC X.COMMUNITY PLANNING —LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE XnELIGIOH - —1400-M99 loWRCHEDlOGY.HISTORIC . —CONSERVATION -JtAW -.' ..SCIENCE'. —1 WO*. ISM —AGRICULTURE —ECONOMICS —LITERATURE • —SCULPTURE )Cl«XMfl99 JLARCHITECTURE '_ fOUCATION X— MILITARY ^'^SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN . X-1700-1799 ^ART —ENGINEERING —MUSIC ' ' i I f , " 1_THEATERT "i t '• X-J800.UB9 —COMMERCE — EXPLORATIQN/SETTLIMENT —PHILOSOPHY X-TffANSPOBTATlON '' — 1«0- -.COMMUNICATIONS X-'NOUSTRY X— POUTICS^GOVIRNMENT —OTHER ISPECIFYI '' ' ••'•'• —INVENTION " ' "' SF;ECIF'j|t^DAtES(^; U{^. f. : ' : BUILDER/ARCHITECT , „ r' ~""~' , '•'•{ '" "• STATEMENT pF.SIGNIFlCANCE';' .-'''' ;ti$%l-$$$fy&^ hlistory ); il^ai-a^^T^^^^ ment^commemorated' ^ ' Ho^e\rer^ltoday' tiiii „__.__. .-_..__*. __,___ -____ _.. „__ f___,„ Victorian^houses.;: of wh';l^h''-mb]c*''! ^«i^a-'';..h'undred-:Wurviva. '•'•Mchitecture!'of; earlier periods is" we^r'represent;isd,.Cconveying 'a sense of continuity. The town plan' laid down before 1680 has been preserved, including the'broad :.s treats as originally '"surveyed. V'^ Since'its beginning, Lewes^has been a center for marine-related industries such as shipbuilding 1 and fishing, which^continue to the present. Since the seventeenth century, the military presence has always been a factor in Lewes history, since it was county seat and port, Lewes first rose to prominence as Delaware's second town after New Castle during the colonial period, but declined for a time when -the county seat was removed in 1790. While evidence of the various periods can be seen throughout the city, most of its heritage awaits the historical archaeologist, . . . Historical- Archaeology • '..-'',' The: ; 6e«nteehtri-century^settlers in the Lewes townsite represented a number of'"trades, including a hat'terV^briekmaher/ several shipwrights; .fur. traders, a tanner,;'and *' merchants. ,-)Surviving; land records make it possible to pinpoint'the industrial sites, as well as 1 the reeidences of the first settlers, who clustered along Front and Second streets, :Because the town is so well documented for its earliest periods, it offers a good specimen site;for the, archaeological interpretation of seventeenth and eighteenth century material culturt. A well-documented diversity of trades, ethnic origins f religion, and social status should be reflected in the ground by ajwide range of differing artifact assemblages. Since the "savannah" behind^Third'street was not reclaimed, anil! evened "for settlement until late in the eighteenth century, the materials from earlier periods should be segregated in a narrow strip along the bank, iiiland to a short distance behind Third Street. . . . : " - . ,,..;• Along th* creek batik at Market Street, the colonial fort would be an .important" site, since no eighteenth-century military site has ever been excavated on the .Dalinarva peninsula. Militia fortifications of this type do not appear frequently in the archaeological literature, which abounds in large garrison forts and battlefield redoubt*. Form HO 10-3OO* UNITKD STATES DEPARK./tNT OF THE INTKRIOR FORv.Pe USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY » NOMINATION FORM BATEENTlHfO CONTINUATION SHEET _____ ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 2 _____^ One problem posed for the archaeologist by the Lewes townsite is the assimilation of various groups into the community, since the settlers included both Dutch and 'English, and since the relationships between the two nationalities was not as strained on the Delaware as in New York, cultural amalgamation may have been more rapid here than elsewhere. For the archaeologist of industry, the shipyard and the brickyard offer interesting . prospects. Architectural Sinificance .-' . , ...... ,... -.- . ••_. -.. .._...... Like Cape May,' across the Bay ( ' Lewes. is''f4istinguiBhed by a' rich heritage of frame Victorian buildings. All the styles of i'decorated domestic architecture current between 1850 and the early decades of the twentieth century are found in Lewes. Theilast half of the nineteenth 'century was a period of economic and populationt ex pansion" in/Lewes. ' Two railroad' lines/ a government installation and increased demands for pilots to guide more and larger ships up. the Bay, prompted the construction of quality new buildings in the latest styles. ^ - Mansard-roofed houses richly decorated in the, second-empire style are found -^throughout the district." The small, one-story .example at; 340 Market Street (126) is perhaps the -best preserved. The : mansard-roof ed 'double' house at 331^329 Market (132) is the largest of the genre in town. Moat are narrow, three-bay, two-story houses with their narrow ends toward the street, as found at 223 Second Street (33), 217 Second Street (35) , and 232 Second Street (45) . ; ; •''-•"'•• -•:, - --:: ' j-*^^"'':\t f*' -''•'•: '.1 '.-.• •.'.'••.••'••• '••:". '.':-.- '.--:"• X -.'•• :.' i(1 '.'. I .' ...\ : '-. >•'"' '• .', ,'. ' •• ;. ''' / ...... The . group' of •> styles) locally called' "Queen Anne , V ' current around ther turn of the /century , brought ,' the tfaditionai Sussex CountyVshingle siding to its highest level of .development, For, 'about ttwo generations, Lewes carpenters created a rich variety, using ccrutiercdal . and home-made' shaped shingles. The double., house at 341-343 Market Street, and its neighbors on either side (134) , exhibit the widest variety in town. Later- versions, by now some what' less exuberant, .may be seen in the large houses at 346 Pilot Town Road (3) and 106 Shipcarpenter Street (83). . .''':• ••. - . ;-:.\i':-;-:- ••••' : "" ••,•,:.•*' ._•''•--..•' ••• ••'">•"* •;•,!•'.- :.'C '\ .-.'.. ,.-.-':'•' : Most of the shingle: siding in L«w«s' is/; however, the traditional form that still is being used occasionally.' The Ryve« Holt House (49) may be .the oldest .example. , Unfortu nately, the art- of shingle sheathing is succumbing to cheaper composition shingle siding. Th* older shingles art long', with as much as two feat of exposure, butt nailed. Newer specimens are shorter, with less than a loot of exposure. Cypress was common in earlier shingle siding, giving way to. local red cedar and finally to Western cedar as local forests become depleted. tDKM AS SUIMITTfD TO OAH.P. fotmNo 10 300* ' • •-> ' ' 4 ,",' |R«v 10-74) .-.,•,•;, ' -•"•.,•': .;-/VV, y / UNITbDSTAtESDIiPARTMl-NTOKTHl-INTKRIOR FOR IMPS USC ONLY .'.'.- •', '- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE •• - '• •'.',..,••', ' '• . .' • ,' '"•',•'' RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED . v-. •'-,'-•••,.•.. v • •v:;.^.,.,;.;;:r: t>.. . v; ;; • -•/ :, .: .v>:- • -v '••.!•• - ••',:< Most: of :the,:dwe^ings^^ two-story,> three or '{five bays Vijae^witji;^ are 'invariably frame V^cove^edfwiti^lapb^^^ no. dormers;'1 set on low foundations. , ;. With;1; few rVaria^io^s/^thJLs j^rm' of ' house f was built in Delaware, for more than two 'centuries, 'Over' a- hundred are found in / the ~di strict"*- the humbler ones have a low second story with small I1 lie- on -your- stomach" windows ..upstairs.. . . \ , ., , - .; > ' The' pbrche's 'of - 'thia'sB'-yBrnli^^^ tense. With the, ,int£od*iJAi^i>jf|[if~th'e7 scroll; saw and 't:fi«'-.du'p'Tii'catlh'g^ia"tHia!''y..; i*wesL* houses began ;: to 1 exhibit Vrichlyr decor at ed /pdrches: acrbs8\\tte^fun;Width;;pf;-tihy;fron^..r ;Even servants 1; houseiSf ;such'-aV; ttie?;anes^ohVs'h^ and turnings. In^Lewes/.one may, see the^ full range of develbpment,;frbm the restrained Greek-revival trim on 330 Market Street (123) , to the elaborate high-Victorian on Pilot Town Road (2, B, 11) . . ,. ;..••.'•, '•;/'•' Whether by:design or by a -lack/of the impulse, 'tew'es'; hombowners; have,, failed by and large to follow the current..trend ^. toward 'destruction of Victorian porches. -. . . .-•.'.-."... ' ,. .'.'. .:..'.' ,..''• . '.•'•+, • !:^.'":: CONTINUATION SHEET \ ITEM NUMBER 0 PAGE ,-V . .. . , .In the^middle"jqf MarJtet" Street: is .a'A^rge frame store building" (39) , said to. be 1 built , around\partB':ofVthe eighteenth-century jail: and marXet house. If so, it is probably 'the ; • oldest:"-v^J'*Vi '•'' public': '. "''^ '•' building 1 in Sussex.' '' Cpjiununity ' Planning ' ''«-'.;';-.: • .^-century^ to! decrea^the^erection-of towriJsYat^strategic pbintsl, along th"e7 coasts.: >Virfginiai/ Maryland, and \!.l^pJlftJh^;(:^rb^in*a'7p'tB>iodica^ly passed town acts -for, the ^better regulation of tradR. : • 'TnevdisperFed^settlersV with large grants almost theirs for the taking/ seldom responded to the' lure of. town life. -'\- • ' - . ••• . , : ••'•'•'"• .vv;.'. '.-- .',•"• .-' : ':'•••;'•. ... f.. - ...., - .-•'••• • ••••'''^, Lewes^ was one such^legislated' town that;; succeeded." .Jn-1672/,;thej;NewY6r)t:,Cquncilti. decreed that" a^ town was to, oev erected;*-'••and that'"'each landowner ' in ther 'district was^tp; erectVa \ house, there. Edmund^ Can twe 11 -"laid out the town along Whorokill in lots sixty i'eet wide ««d two hundred feet d«ep, divided by streets also sixty feet wide. On'the ehbre, at the center, was a fort. Behind that was & market square, court house square, and four* acres^'of open ground. . ,f •••-• :..-\' . ' ; ^, • The ' county court attempted to isegregate^ functions, placing. 'the tanyard on a stream in bacJc of the town, -the^ship yards on the ; creeX bank, and businesses on the front lots. The soundness of this planning is reflected by the fact that Lewes today retains the elements of the original plan, even though none of 'the original buildings survive, V'- 'I-.: . •; •^••;'V.^:.ir. 1 i • ' ' ' .'V . Industrial Significance' - •< >:•'' , ' ' " Fot-th* indust;ri^l4axbJueologist f i L'ewe'8^bff/ersr several^oppori:^ Tne Hocker past«r. brush 'factory, V-a till'" operating on\ Front street (20)',' has t recently been docu- ' mentisd^by the; Historic^ American Engineering Record. In the "ground, there should be remnants^of .shipyards and 'attendant industries that flourished during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 16B2, there were two vessels on the stocks in Lewes j boat building has continued to the present. : , -•;.•"'•''.-.' . '"..••.'— .'-:..:1U;A_' : '-'"!--:,''>:^r- -:•"•• :-— -""Vf / '.-. •-' , .'•,:',:• '"' (':..•.,-'.>', The brick yard, already "old" in the 1660*8, may have been the source of the small, yellow "rhitch" bricks found frequently on local archaeological site*. It lay in the town^ and may yet yield valuable data on the history of an industry that has been inadequately studied in thii country. Military Significance Coastal defense, the primary theme of Delaware military history, has been a factor in Lewes history fro* the beginning. K*M AS TO I'..;'-.-.; •C- i.''- '' ( __ -T ,* • IIUv. 10-74)-741 ; •. ;N -77'-;1 :ir--^^;; "- ' UNITtUSTATKSpEPARTMKNT OK f ME INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY ,..YY '. NATIONAL'PARk SERVICE; ;", • RECEIVED ; NATIONALREGISTER or HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED "CONTINUATJON SHEET '> .ITEM HUMBERT "8 ' > PAGE " 5\: te^ause'ia^itjs'at^eit^eg^e^l^c'al:^ b'een^fprtifie^^irit^^itte^nii^ : whaling'whaing' colony.^•'"jWlieh^Lewes'colo"ni<.}viVhLeeB\wja WHS" establiBhed.^stabliBlied/ there was already-a-'butchalready.; a-' Dutch West India company^ Fort 'near.; the towhsitc and a"1 blockhouse : on the west; end off, .'the town land.-;: A 1 , fobt;of Market Street, but it was abandoned Wf ore \tne Revolution. 'During^the| War Yof-J 1812, batteries along Lewes' Creek returned the fire of a'{ small British squadron.1" 'Fort Miles, built in 1941 on Cape Henlopen, is the newest coastal defense installation, 'iwhich is ;iiow being converted into a state park as military units gradually 'close their facilities there. r Pali tical rand Governmental Signif icanca ;. Lewes ^was; :establiahed torbe ;a county town and pert "of entry. As the county seat and : only, sizeable town," ;in Sussex before 1790, it was the home of many important leaders /ofythe colony; and state. , y ,.; v '•; •••— *L - tewes^jiaa":,be1en-\the^h6maY^;'si*?^ovemoraj' David; Hali""(1802-18.05y;(, Daniel' Podney7L; ! , (1814-1817) r /Caleb';Rodney! tl822"1823)V Samuel Paynter (1B24"1827)JV Dr.- Joseph Maull {lB46J,'land^eW..TunnellV;(le^7-f^01).^': , In a^dditioh/ Governor William Burton (1859- ^•^•.1863)i/)^:-.^,^iY;, was born in a '•.house1vv-: ;/^^/iv'^-near Angola '^ that;^. Major figures in American religious history are'. closely associated with Lewes. Cornelius PlocXhoy, Georg* Whitefield, Freeborn' G&rretson, and Francis Asbury, all worked in Lewes. From its seventeenth-century beginnings, Lewes was a haven for religious minorities, including Jews, one of whom became sheriff. FOAM AS SUWYTttD TO OAH*. FoMlNQ 10300* '• : , /Tl " " />, '{fit., 10-7*1 . • ...,,/,, ( f ... •,,,-'' ' ," ' UN1TLD STATUS PKFARTMbNTQH THE INTHRIOR 'ft NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK 'SERVICE- .', v •' '• ;«..-.•:.-•-.. . ' • '• -,. '..*r,v' • V RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY-NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED /CONTINUATION SHEET" ——:tTEM NUMBER. ,. 6 .' PACE _ ..... - .-.,- ...... ,_ - Utopian commonweal th^.£T^ Plockhoy -was among ; fche'-first^liDtih^ld^ers^^ and Second streets before 1682. /' IriL 169.3, old and ^Slind, 'Plockhoy sold -"his "lots and moved; to Gerraantown, whereVia new generation of Mennonitef-settlers, took him.inV .Nothing is known of Plockhoy.and'his followers during the nearly two decades betweeni 1664 and 1682. ; George..Whitofieid;'one of; the., f ounder^^^ 1739.•"|,Twp;vyears;later,fhe;.establis!hed*a.Methodist society there, muchJto^tne};di,kT' of Reverend William BecketV"the;Anglican rector. Becket denounced whitefield "and .his ^cr^azy; followers,V'b'ut -they' ^apparently gained converts. \ According Vdtb' Becket!} Whitefield"drew ; a crowd of between 1400 and 1500 forva sermon 'in' 1740:' fjrh Society"a^lAwes-dis^baBr|'de^~short:ly_thereaf1:.er.M ^^ he tried' torpreach:at "the court hovae in. 1779, but nirie^yeare later, the 'first Metho.- dist meeting house in Lewes was built west11,of town. About_1790, the Methodists built' the firiit Bethel Methodist_Church at Third-!and Market streets^ across from St. Peter's, The building (96)' still stands on another site, one of the few churches still stand ing that is direct3.y associated with Francis flsbury, who preached there. Transportation Significance Because of its Iccatipn at the mouth of Delaware Bay, Writime 1 transport' haa! been ••* dominant; ; therne- in the'history. of, Lewes. : During the/ eighteenth century,1 'the'lighthouse on Cape Henlppen was built by Philadelphia interests to protect Delaware Bay shipping. For the same purpose, prompted by the same financial interests, two massive stonr breakwaters were built during the nineteenth century in Lewes Harbor. The breakwaters have,been nominated. ; . ; "•-' "•: ,' •/-M-' - '•'.' ^••:'' \\ ' --"t ,-' I ' •:' -'.• ' ••• • ' . ".,-.'. The pilots who guide ships up the Eky have lived in Lewes since it was established. Along Pilot Topwn Road they built., theit houses .facing Lewes Creek and the Bay. The lucrative'pilot business over the years has left its^mark en the city's architecture. Two railroad? -The Queen,Anne and the Junction and Breakwater - sought during the later years of the nineteenth century to develop a port at Lewes, but both lines eventually, failed in that purpose. The Junction and Breakwater still operates as part cf the former Penn-Central system, serving industries on the Cape. a*. i ID; (H*v 10-741 0 0 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OKTHE INTERIOR f OR NPS USC ONLY ' NATIONAL fARK SERVICE RECEIVED 'NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY-NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 7 The government attempt** to develop a port At Lewes on the Iron Pier, a screw-pile structure in the harbor begun around 1870. It was never ctmpluted, although nearly 2,000 feet of structure was built over two decades. ., ;:'.''' I«wes Creek, now part of the busy Lewes and Rehoboth Canal, tins always been'the town's connection to the sea. Today, pleasure boats line both shore a irr greater numbers than ever before. A waterfront complex* the Ellis Marine group, stucvives in the district as a reminder of the days when the creek bank was filled, with consoercial structures. Even during the seventeenth century, lots on the bank were set aaide for commercial and shipbuilding purposes, and dwellings were prohibited. SOW**) TO MAjoR|(i^ 225th Anniyeraary of Nhi tafia Id and H«thodJa» M*thod:.^t Church, October 15, Cullmn. Virqinln; ' Hifltbry of tew*a, Delaware, Lnwu Colonel Cvtvid Hall Chapter, ' ' :der^5T^laJfid,v^aixl i >iaWin5J.Barder f , Plockhoy fct Mvwton, Board of Kducatibn and^Publication, 1952. EjGEOGRAPHICALDATA"""^ •' •'-.'- •-• -' • ' ACftWcJE 'OF NOMiHATiD pnoWflTY _jJ! isVi> i S« ConttnuaUou Shoot -I •'•'. I II . 1 ORTHING - -ZONE -EASTING" NORTHING Dl . I I I . I 1 . 1 , 1 . r, , VEHDAl BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION^ . ~ Thu atartlng point ia ^tha center of f-,h« intersection of Third Street and Savannah Road, i;he point whera the .old road to Rehoboth (King's Highway) «nt«r«d the grid of the saventeenth-Mnf.-ory «tr*et plan, , , • . • • f i I Froa the point of beginning,' the diattict boundary follcws the centerline of King's Highway southward'to the, rear lot line of the town park behind the Zwaanendael Museum. LIST ALL STATES AND COU£ TIES ^OR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE CODE COUNTY CODE STATE COUNTY CODE FORM PREPARED BY NAMt/tlTLf - .' ; % ;. - ..'.:•-, - •:•••-.. Bdward-F. VHeit« ORGANIZATION DATE I 1 Div. of•Historical -Cultural Affaire September 1976 •'Hall' 'of Record* 678-5314 GTVOilTOWH :' tTATE Delaware ESTATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE'EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF'THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE is: _ LOCAL JL_ 'As ttw de»ignit«d Statu Hhttorlc PrAMrwion Offictr fef the N«tton«l HtttorfTPrtMrvitkm Act of 1906 (Public Law8&-685), I h^rttby ntSminate thts'propsrty for, kiclution in Ihm Niitlon*! £vfi*t0r «nd cwtify that H h» bttn tviluittd Kcordmg to crtt«rii'»nd pfoc*dur«» wt forth by tti* Nitlonil Park! STATE HISTORIC PBEMRVATIOH Of FICCfl WOHATUM rLfi DiirectoriV Di vie ion of Hiutorical ft Cultural, AffairB /y/77 tti'm H» !0-)00* mi*. 10*741 UNITtU} STATES DEPARTMENTOF THE INTERIOR o NATIONAL PAMK KRVICf NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY- NOMINATION FORM PAT1INT1WO : CONTINUATION KHCIT ITIMNUMitH 9 Scharf, J. ThoMw. History of D*l*w*x« 1609-1868. 2 volww*. Phil«d«lphia; I.. J, Richard* • company, 1888. IOOAMA FwmNo ID-300* , > (N«V 10-7-W '",/' UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF.VHE INTERIOR lOfCNftUttf OMIT NATIONAL PARK SERVtCX RECflVCO NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY-NOMINATION FORM DATE tNUNEO " . &^!^ • CONTI NU ATION *H«T, lf M NUMBeRS^id^FAflei^'^...'/ / .V- cop«ttyijJ.AntJj;WJ.^*-i»«tf j^o fattiiafsa^ann'iii^Rola^ ; ai^^'iii^j^^ll^y'an^^ 'af^315<{s'a^in'n1i^'^a"dT:'toltheTitt^ v^V^^Sf^y-s'e^^^^'^^'i^r&WSi^r*!^*^ t&£ "ii)put-:68-^et^outh^s^ fl^a horthwesteriy^irectibn, ;tte'-'].iiw;'e'xt:ehdiii^^ of Shipcorpenter Street JPark -Avenue) .^jrhen^ with^the;-cent^line;'bf.;S^lpi;Mi^ter Street, :"the boundary,extends to t:he^ center'.of the intersection ^of; Shipcaicpeiriter; and Third Streets. Frcni this"1 intereactibn the boundary foll(»a^t^ Street northwesterly to^ A point about 250 feet from Shipcarpenter Street, the lot lina of the''I^ewie's Historical' Society enclave. Thence/ following .the'boundary of the Historical Society and the adjacent property northeasterly about 250 feet, the boundary reaches the roar lot line of the property at 314 Front Straet. Thence, along the rear lot lines of 314/320, 322, and 324 Front Street, the boundary proceeds in a north westerly direction to the side line of 326 Front Street. The boundary then follows the side line of 326 Front Street tn the extreme southern corner of the property. AS syWAITTB) TO VI- KwmNo lOXXta *«*••- ~\ V, I"*. 10-741 (V f } 1 UNITKD STATES DEPAk/MHNT OP THE INTERIOR lr^ /" NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY « NOMINATION FORM fiATEENTERCO ITtM ^ . it^to;::th^^ ^iiiib : R . a !?^ lot; line of tha, jovernor 'riurtoh- Birthplace -property. rYthe^Vfbi lows the line of the property, which is deHcribed as being 225 and '60}fcet broad in front. Pron the point of intersection between 'the extension of the property line and the centorline of Savannah Road, the district boundary then follows the centerline southward to the point of beginning at the ihteysectibn with Third Street. ATI/4 88020/4291 530 &! • . •' ' 1 i,~ •*---^*-'*>? VlLT^ L'U F*W.*tfltt>J «!*•" J^. 1J B 18/487900/4291400 C 18/48750 £18/487520/4291700 F 18/487130/4291970 G 18/487140/4292020 H 18/4871SO/4291750 J 18/487930/4281700 ,1 I !D18/48737p/429lifl6 !2-18/487520/4291700 . *. P l«/4S7i30/4291fl70 ( ) 0,18/48^1^4292020 H 18/487180/4291750 I 18/487330/1281700 •** ** ~^ -^ v*» • •"* ^- "* ^* x** "^W ai•• • i ^X-*-rif> **wVLr ^ • ".••>'•*• "S^iirlf*'—T'"-I-" 'i&v 1^%"^^^^ H LEAVES historic district N feet." poles- . fI I : V j f 0 BffTKIBS IM THE mTIOKMi MOItHEIt DELAWARE Lewes Historic District Lewea Sussex County Also Motifitd Hon. Williaa V. Roth, Jr. Hon. Joseph R. Blden, Jr. Hen. Thomas B. Evans t Jr. ::?; 2? 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